{"id":959,"date":"2026-03-08T16:30:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T16:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/?p=959"},"modified":"2026-03-08T16:30:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T16:30:54","slug":"ari-lennox-regrets-dreamville-drama-i-shouldve-never-taken-it-to-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/?p=959","title":{"rendered":"Ari Lennox regrets Dreamville drama: &#8220;I should\u2019ve never taken it to the internet&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong style=\"text-align: justify\">Ari Lennox<\/strong> is ready to move forward, and that starts with making things right with J<strong style=\"text-align: justify\">. Cole<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">During a recent stop at <em style=\"text-align: justify\">The Breakfast Club<\/em> to talk about her new project Vacancy, the singer looked back on her messy exit from <strong style=\"text-align: justify\">Dreamville Records <\/strong>and admitted she wished she had handled it differently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">While the split happened last year, the tension really started in late 2024 when Ari went to social media to vent. She felt like her music, specifically her song \u201c<em style=\"text-align: justify\">Smoke<\/em>,\u201d wasn\u2019t getting the marketing push it needed from the label. But looking back now, she realizes that bringing her frustrations to the public wasn\u2019t the right move.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cI think it was just a really emotional time for me, and I regret it honestly,\u201d Ari admitted. \u201cI feel like I should\u2019ve never taken it to the Internet. I do want to apologize to J. Cole. I sent him a message on Instagram. I sent him a voice note. I\u2019m a little afraid to give him a call but I do apologize.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Ari was very clear that her issues weren\u2019t personal and definitely weren\u2019t with Cole himself. She actually credited him for being her \u201cgreatest co-sign\u201d and helping her reach her dreams over the last decade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">To her, the problem was strictly about the business side and how the label executives handled her promotion. \u201cIt was never Cole,\u201d she said. \u201cCole was never the issue. I think it was just literally a marketing thing but it is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Even though she moved on to focus on her deal with <strong style=\"text-align: justify\">Interscope<\/strong>, there clearly isn\u2019t any bad blood left. She even made an appearance at the final <strong style=\"text-align: justify\">Dreamville Festival<\/strong> to thank Cole for everything.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Now, with the <em style=\"text-align: justify\">Vacancy<\/em> tour kicking off on April 12, Ari seems focused on her new music and leaving the \u201cInternet drama\u201d in the past.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0 <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-embed-id=\"64a6b1a7b95e4c359c375a8774e882d7\" data-embed-type=\"social-auto\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ari Lennox is ready to move forward, and that starts with making things right with J. Cole. During a recent stop at The Breakfast Club to talk about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}